To: MAE || From: The Parisian Assembly || CC: OCI, MNG, PN.

[Monsieur Baguette]

Fabian Montluc

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Monsieur de Monfort,

Your inquiry was expected, albeit a bit later than I originally envisioned. Now, to the matter. You are being brash, so shall I.

Firstly, I read your "laws" very attentively and am fairly certain there is not a single provision preventing me from doing what I am doing. This is not a surprise to me, as the Parisian Assembly has already posed itself as incompetent, to my disappointment, I must admit. Do you intend on rebuilding Gallia? Because your recent legislation is anything but not an incentive to revitalise not only the border systems like Languedoc, but ANY system. Strict regulation of mining that outlaws small and medium enterprises from entering the market. Declaration of the limitation of freedom of travel within the Gallic space through media without supporting it with any credulous word of law while lazily coining some ephemeral term "Enclave Space" wherein in the "laws" of your very Confederation you claim system such as Brittany for yourself, invalidating its definition as "Enclave Space". Nothing of your demands comes with legal backup, and laws, Monsieur, is what distinguishes us from those savages from Malta.

You should ask yourself why would I even want to establish this Barony. You think it is hunger for power? Surely, a world of 80.000 souls would be a titan in Gallia to rival the Duchy and the Republic with their immense fleets and billions of population. Money? I have enough profits running the corporation. So what is it then? The order. Something, your Confederation is incapable of providing. You are either really incompetent judging by your laws, or just do not care about the Border systems and its populace, restraining local priority industry - mining.

Your gendarmes are corrupt, your marines are hunting ghosts in Brittany, and your laws are a copy-paste of the Royal Laws thad are not applicable to the new conditions we live in. Where were you during the provisional period when Quillan was suffering from unemployment? Where were you when the criminal bunch from Unione Corse seized Quillan? And now you dare to tell the people that their hopes for better future are wrong? What a hubris. But I was there, I saw people suffering. I saw it when I served with the engineering corps on Quillan during the war. I brought here capital to build something while I could just go into the Hebrides or to Lorraine and live the rest of my life in luxury. I created jobs, I created infrustructure, I brought prospects to this forgotten planet.

You want us to cease activities for now - fine, so be it. I will remain implementing my reforms in Uxeau of which I am the Baron and something you cannot take from me because I build the city from the scratch. We will see how Quillaners will like comparing their lives in their poor mining towns to the splendor of Uxeau. If you eventually put too much obstacles into our work and activities - MAE will simply say "Au revour" to your Confederation and your criminal Minarchy puppets and leave for good taking our capital with ourselves to somewhere else where our skills and initiative would be recognised.

Mind, I still believe we can come out of it on good terms. We are not intending to split from your precious Confederation, the Gauls should stick together and be stronger than other Houses. We are ready to continue pumping up money in this region, regulate its trade, industry, medicine, education, finances, and through it - benefit the Gallic economy. But if you prefer mafia to hold hands over this region rather than hard working people that recognise merit over familial ties - I digress. This decision will only prove to the local populace, and populace outside of Languedoc what Confederate Government truly is - and something we will gladly share our opinion on in media.

Now that is your call, Monsieur de Monfort. I do not wish to start another war on Quillan to depress the local populace even more after what it has already endured. If you want to oppress us - we won't fight back, we will simply go away, leaving you with nothing and weaker than you are now. You want to kill the local economy and activity - go for it. Our new ship designs, our new technological solutions for colonisation of planets and fast infrastructure buildup will leave with us and never see Gallia again, giving a competitive advantage to our new home. If that is the prosperity of Gallia you are thinking about - think over my words again and consider what would it cost for the Confederation to give a tiny world of 80.000 to a group of industrious people keen on developing it. Not much. What would you lose by denying us? Quite a lot.

Cordialment,
Baron Fabian Montluc